This section is from the book "Mrs. Rorer's Diet For The Sick", by Sarah Tyson Rorer. Also available from Amazon: Mrs. Rorer's Diet For The Sick.
Sick headache, like biliousness, is foremost among the diseases that come from an over-rich, incorrect or badly-cooked food. It seems to be a disease of women, and strangely enough, the writer has seen a grandmother impregnate two succeeding generations of women with the idea that they must have it, because she and her mother had it. Progression would cease if such thoughts were common. Let us inherit the good, and strive to correct the bad of our ancestors.
Breakfasts: One cup of clear coffee, or The juice of two oranges, or A grape fruit, or A saucer of prunes, without sugar, or A mellow sour apple,
All without other food 10.30:
A glass of zoolak, or buttermilk, or koumys, or skimmed milk 12.30 luncheon: A bit of white-fleshed fish, or Chicken, boiled or broiled, or Boiled calf's head with lemon juice, or Acid fruits without sugar
Boned calf's feet with lemon juice,
With asparagus, or spinach, cress, dandelions, endive, cauliflower, kohl-rabi, cucumbers, stewed summer squash, stewed young turnips, string beans without fat, stewed tender celery
Gluten biscuit
Stale bread
Whole wheat bread
Water between meals
Acid fruits with'meat, not bread
Oranges
Grape fruit
Water ices, now and then
Tea
Coffee
Chocolate
Soups
Pork
Veal
Turkey in particular
Goose
Rich sauces
Puddings
Pies
Cakes
Sweets
Cabbage
Peppers
Carrots, except grated raw
Sweetbreads
Sea foods
Kidneys
Starchy foods, as potatoes, rice, macaroni White bread; hot breads Sour dishes; pickles Mayonnaise dressing Tomatoes
Old peas, beans and lentils Rice
Sweet fruits Fried foods Fats in general Ice creams
 
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